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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. L.
An Act to provide for recording certain Papers in the Register's
Office
of Dorchester
County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 50. |
1805.
CHAP. 50.
Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that a number
of wills, and other papers, appertaining to the estates of deceased
persons, remain unrecorded in the register's office of Dorchester
county, and that said wills are liable to be damages or lost;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the orphans court of
Dorchester county, and they are hereby empowered and required,
to cause to be recorded by the register of wills of said county, in
good leather bound books, to which fair and regular alphabets shall
be prefixed, all such papers filed in the office of the register of wills
of said county, and which have not been recorded, as they, or a
majority of them, in their judgment may deemed necessary and proper
to be recorded. |
All papers filed
in register's office
to be recorded. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said register
shall receive the
same fees for his said services as he is by law entitled to for services
of a similar nature. |
Registers fees. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Dorchester
county may and shall levy on the assessable property of said county,
such sum of money as the fees for recording said wills and other
papers may amount to, to be collected and paid over by the sheriff
if Dorchester county to the register aforesaid. |
Levy for paying
fees. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue in force until
the first day of March, eighteen hundred and nine, and no longer.
Further continued by 1808, ch. 99,
and other annual general continuing acts. |
Duration. |
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CHAP. LI.
An Act to lay out and open a certain Road in Baltimore County to
intersect
the main Road leading from Cromwell's Bridge to Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 51. |
Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, by
the petition of sundry inhabitants of Baltimore county, that they
are situated between two public roads, and having no permanent
outlet to either, and representing, that all parties through whose
lands the contemplated road should pass having mutually agreed,
and praying that a law may pass for that purposed; and the prayer
of the petitioners appearing reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Thomas Hellen, Thomas Taylor, Benjamin Gatch, Benjamin Tracey
and Josias Stevenson, or any three of them, be and they are
hereby appointed and commissioned, at the expense of the petitioners,
or those who may be interested therein, to survey, mark, bound
and lay out, a public road, not to exceed thirty feet wide, beginning
at the plantation of John Stansbury, and running by the methodist
meeting-house, called Joseph Taylor's meeting-house, and near
Benjamin Tracey's mill, and from thence until it intersects the
main road leading from Cromwell's bridge to Baltimore, and in
laying out the said road the said commissioners are directed to take
into view, as well the disadvantages which may result to individuals,
over whose land the said road may run, as the convenience |
Commissioners
appointed to survey
and lay out a
road. |
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